ReadyBoost Flash Drives Lack Boost?

[HardOCP News]

According to PCWorld, Vista’s ReadyBoost feature isn’t that much of a boost after all. Sometimes the ReadyBoost drives even slowed the test systems down. What the?!? Hit the link for all the details.

Windows Vista's Windows ReadyBoost sounds too good to be true, and based on our extensive lab tests, it is. The technology promises to let you speed up Windows by plugging an inexpensive USB flash drive into your PC. But we found that while ReadyBoost may speed up Vista a tiny bit, it can also slow it down in some instances.

 

[ThomasDM]

I recently did a few benchmarks and found that the Super Talent 200x USB drive increases performance by 6.16% in PCMark05 on a Dell Inspiron 6400 with 2GB RAM memory. However, when you take a look at the subtests you can see that while the overall score is much higher, the performance actually dropped quite a lot in some tests.

 

[DarkSyd]

Doesn't seem to jive with what the good doctor says....

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/31/windows-vista-superfetch-and-readyboostanalyzed/index.html

 

[Monkey God]

I recently did a few benchmarks and found that the Super Talent 200x USB drive increases performance by 6.16% in PCMark05 on a Dell Inspiron 6400 with 2GB RAM memory. However, when you take a look at the subtests you can see that while the overall score is much higher, the performance actually dropped quite a lot in some tests.

drop that 2gb to 1 or even 512mb and then report back.

 

[provoko]

Pcworld sucks. They're the worst authority on computers.

 

[Evil]

Doesn't seem to jive with what the good doctor says....

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/31/windows-vista-superfetch-and-readyboostanalyzed/index.html

Yeah, Tom's test were way more comprehensive as well compared to PC World's tests.

PC World seems to have issues when trying to post a thorough review of any product on the market.

 

[jmackay]

Steve are you guys going to take a look at ReadyBoost?

 

[Max Mike]

drop that 2gb to 1 or even 512mb and then report back.

Yea the whole point of Readyboost is to speed up systems low on ram not systems loaded with ram.

 

[ferzerp]

I have to say that that was one of the shoddiest "tests" i've ever looked at.

 

[Dreknaught]

Yea the whole point of Readyboost is to speed up systems low on ram not systems loaded with ram.

It's true.

My OCZ 2GB flashdrive with ReadyBoost makes Vista possible On my old Tbird1.4GHz w/ 768MB of ram (it's just a simple TV box)

Where as it actually causes my 3.4GHz C2D w/ 2GB to chunk up and stutter all over the place.

*shrugs*

 

[CyberDeus-RagDoll]

Yea the whole point of Readyboost is to speed up systems low on ram not systems loaded with ram.

Correct. Even microsoft themselves admit that, basically, the more ram you have, the less worthwhile the technology is. (First hand knowledge passed to me directly by a microsoft exec also known as monkey boy.)

 

[TheGeekFreek]

my new m9750 has 4gb... Im not worried

 

[Ockie]

Microsoft clearly states that it's to help machines that are a little low on memory. Not machines with a few gigs.